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Wisdom From Another Indian Sage and His Grandmother   In our last +1, we talked about Yogananda and his guru’s wisdom on what to do with ghosts/aka how to live fearlessly.   As you may recall, the trick is to APPROACH our challenges rather than try to avoid them.    The story is so good, we’ll quickly review it.   Yogananda’s guru tells him: “My mother once tried to frighten me with an appalling story of a ghost in a dark chamber. I went there immediately, and expressed my disappointment at having missed the ghost. Mother never told me another horror tale.”   Hah. Genius.   The moral of the story?    “Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.”   As I read that moral from an Indian yogi, I thought of another one of my favorite Indian sages, Eknath Easwaran.    In his great book, Your Life Is Your Message, he tells us about a lesson he learned from his Indian guru—who happened to be his grandmother.   The short story?    Young Eknath was complaining about how hard it was to